America: The World’s Energy Powerhouse
For a lifetime, American elites preached "the end of oil" and permanent dependence on foreign energy sources. But innovation made America the world's top producer. Trump is taking it next level.
by Rod D. Martin
February 20, 2025
For decades, the left peddled doomsday tales about American energy. They claimed the world had reached “Peak Oil”, that oil and natural gas would soon be gone, and that windmills and solar panels (but not nuclear! Definitely NOT nuclear!) were the only ways to stave off civilizational collapse.
This was “settled science”. Ask anyone from Paul Ehrlich and the Club of Rome to Al Gore and T. Boone Pickens (who, unlike the others, had the decency years later to admit he’d been wrong and that his proposals would have been an economic disaster had they been adopted).
No one asked how many of these tall tales were funded by Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds and American oil companies just hoping to jack up prices; or “Green entrepreneurs” hoping to make bank by forcing the public into new fuels and infrastructure they’d then provide. No one looked too closely at where the Environmental Defense Fund’s or Greenpeace’s donations came from. And no one explain…